How do you create your drums on the sp 404?
What effects do you use?
Do you use sample cd's?
Or do you sample from record?
Or get loops from your computer?

How goes it?

Feel free to give out any other tips please

Che

I use any effect available, mess around till it sounds right. (Vinyl sim being one of my favourites)

Yes I sample from CD, DVD, VINYL ...
All chopping copying and programming gets done on the sp-404, its limitations seems to trigger more creativity.

thanks for that pt3r!

Oh yea...when you program your drums do you do it in the pattern sequencer, if so for how many bars

and does anyone do their drum programming by resampling single drum hits, chopping it and then adding effects to that loop?

I program drums in the pattern sequencer for 4 or 8 bars. The skeleton of the loop is programmed with a form of qunatizing but all the other elements get added without quantizing, sometimes I reprogram the quantized bits afterwards without quantizing.

real talk!for some reason the limitaion of the sp really opens u up creativly!I like to take a break beat and chop each individual hit ,then resample each hit with some type of effect!I try not to quantise on the sequencer.

any more tips...info on drums and samples??

I use alot of drum machine samples. Samples are all over the net.

Old soundtracks have a lot of great drum beats and sounds, and the web is full of them, if you look wisely.

I will chop them up and tweek in soundforge, then sample. I am also sequencing with freeware progs like psycle and buzz.

Check this place out.

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

This site has a lot of vintage rhythm machine samples, going all the way back to the LinnDrum:

http://www.denhaku.com/r_box/r_box.htm

I use an old RY30 or my MC-505 Drum synth plugged into the SP. You can get old drum machines pretty cheap these days and the combination of old drum machine + new SP effects = original and phat drums..

I think its the limits combined with ease of use that make it so dope. I usually get a few long samples and copy them over the entire bank and then use the mark button to set start/end points and then fine tune with the knobs. I do the same thing with drums. Then I keep a few banks free for resampling with the FX I want. I sequence in the sequencer and I quantize my drums. Usually in 16th triplets. I usually make a series of 4 bar loops that I chain together to complete the structure. And I sample exclusivrly from vinyl. I love that sound.

Thanks for da links and the responses!

At the moment I find myself on the hunt for drums. I need good quality drum kit samples, but I think I'm gonna record a live drummer with my Micro Br and then chop with the SP.

Old Break Beats are my personal favorite.. u get that 90's rugged sound by chopping break beats..